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Ed Begley Jr. gets fired up on Fox News

Your favorite green celeb, Ed Begley Jr., verbally jousts with Fox News guest host Stuart Varney about the science of climate change.
Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 2:28 PM EST
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Ed Begley Jr. went on Neil Cavuto's show on Fox News and debated with substitute host Stuart Varney about the science of climate change and the recent flap over the hacked climate data and scientist e-mails. Things got heated quickly with both Begley and Varney shouting over one another. Begley did well and was clear in stating that the science of climate change is not in question — the overwhelming consensus among the world's scientific community is that climate change is real, it's man-made, and that we're already seeing its effects. I don't think he, as Lila Shapiro at Huffington Post put it, "flipped out" — he was passionate, fiery and appropriate for the venue. (Fox News' base audience understands messages better when they're shouted.)
 
Begley ended his four-minute clip with this comment: "You cannot destroy the commons. The commons is the air and the ocean — it's very old law!"
 
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Posted By Poptech - Fri, Nov 27 2009 at 7:46 AM EST

Ed Begley Jr. gets fired up on Fox News

Ed Begley doesn’t get it, the emails show suppression of peer-reviewed papers!

"I can’t see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!" – Phil Jones, Director Climatic Research Unit (CRU)

Somebody might want to let Ed know that even still an extensive amount of skeptical peer-reviewed papers exist,

450 Peer-Reviewed Papers Supporting Skepticism of.... More

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Posted By Sheri - Thu, Nov 26 2009 at 11:50 PM EST

You want proof?

How about artic ice core samples? They show increased co2=warmer weather...We have many natural sources of this gas but the natural balance has been upset by our release of co2 that was bound up and stored underground for eons...we can go back to an enviroment that created this extra co2 -but it will NOT be an enviroment fit for humans

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Posted By Mike - Thu, Nov 26 2009 at 8:48 AM EST

Proud, willful ignornance

The deniers are the ones acting like religious zealots-- they refuse to accept the massive pile of clear evidence and sound science, and stubbornly believe what they deperately want to believe. They offer no proof, only angry conjecture and talking points that have been discredited over and over. There are multiple lines of evidence produced by many researchers (working independently) that support AGW caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emmission.

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Posted By Aaron - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 10:28 PM EST

Consensus Conschmensus

Ther ewas once a consensus amongst scientists that the earth was flat, that Newton's law was real, and that the Americas were India. All of those have been disproven by one or two maverick, SKEPTICAL scientists. There's no "consensus" on climate change unless the only pseudo-scientific body you want to cite is the IPCC, a GOVERNMENTAL unit, not a scientific one.

Wake up, Ed Bagley, you're a moron. You're the Al Gore of Hollywood. Get over yourself.

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Posted By Shea Gunther - Thu, Nov 26 2009 at 8:41 AM EST

how does it feel to be SO wrong?

No, there was once consensus among dumbasses that the earth was flat- the Greeks used science to show that the world was round 500 years before Christ was born. A little knowledge can be a dangerous thing...

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Posted By Dan - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 7:30 PM EST

Values

Good grief, you'd think the effort to get America off of expensive, dirty, polluting, war-producing oil is somehow wrong. Let's assume CO2 does not produce global warming for a second. Wouldn't you like cleaner air, rivers, oceans with more fish? Better swimming? Less smog that produces less asthma and other health ailments? How about the billions spent on war to control oil resources? Wouldn't you rather that money be spent on your roads, hospitals, schools, firefighters, water treatment,.... More

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Posted By Aaron - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 10:41 PM EST

Had He Talked About Oil...

I could only stand a few minutes of this video, so maybe I missed it. I'm not into Jerry Springer science "debates" like this. Did he really talk about oil? Or did he just keep going with his global warming, sky is falling, Al Gore parroting act?

I think everyone with a brain agrees that we need to stop burning oil, dumping things into landfills, ruining waterways, etc. In my mind, the whole global warming farce takes away from that and only makes it worse. We're so worried about.... More

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Posted By Shea Gunther - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 8:08 PM EST

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Well said.

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Posted By LibertyCzar - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 6:31 PM EST

Ed is a fool

RUKidding,

I agree he flipped out because someone was challenging his religion. It is really hard for him to understand that his whole belief is a fraud as the hacked emails show that warmists conspired to prevent studies which didn’t quite jive with their agenda from appearing in Ed's favorite "peer-reviewed" journals.

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Posted By RUKidding - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 5:36 PM EST

So what if Begley flipped out?

Insulting someone's religion has always been considered fighting words, so no one should be surprised that Begley flipped out. This is his religion and he will blindly defend it even if its high priests are revealed as the very soul of duplicity.

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Posted By Shea Gunther - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 6:10 PM EST

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Sorry, but science is not a religion. Religion is believing in something in the face of hard evidence and proof. Science is the pursuit of truth and knowledge through testing and asking questions that can be answered by proof. This flowchart explains the difference in an easy to understand format for you- http://is.gd/53HIy The reason Ed defends (and there's nothing blind about it) the science of climate change is because.... More

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Posted By Aaron - Wed, Nov 25 2009 at 10:35 PM EST

Woefully Uninformed

Oh please. So far Z E R O evidence that CO2 causes warming. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Cite some REAL evidence (not some computer model) to show the contrary. You can't. Why? It's not there.

SCIENCE is about proof. Religion is about hoping to find truth for a presupposition. So far, global warming (AGW) is religious, not factual.

Once again: where is the PROOF. Provable, repeatable, actual fact. Not "consensus" since science and nature are not a democracy. F A C T.... More

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Posted By Shea Gunther - Thu, Nov 26 2009 at 9:30 AM EST

Saying something enough times doesn't make it true.

You're so wrong it hurts. Literally, my big toe is killing me here. Stop talking so it doesn't spread to my pointer toe.

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